To help inform recent efforts to reclaim cities from the automobile, shows how the pattern and distribution of street and square and other major elements in the city can be enhanced by the judicious use of decorative surface treatment the careful placing of hard and soft landscape features. Pivots on five components: the path, the node, the edge, the landmark, and the district. The 1996 edition is here updated with, among other features, a new chapter on the relationship between decoration and the building technology that underpins it, based on the traditional mud cities of the Hausa to avoid the polemics surrounding modern cities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
'Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration' focuses on decorating the city and how ornament has been used to bring delight to the urban scene.
The authors show how the pattern and distribution of street and square and other major elements in the city can be enhanced by the judicious use of decorative surface treatment and by the careful placing of hard and soft landscape features.
This second edition, updated by Cliff Moughtin and now available in paperback, includes a new chapter on mud architecture. Case studies of city decoration are also outlined to bring together the ideas discussed and to show how ornament and decoration can be used to emphasize the five components of city form: the path, the node, the edge, the landmark and the district.
*Generously illustrated with case studies
*New chapter on mud architecture
*Part of the successful Cliff Moughtin urban design series
